When Frank Herbert sat down in 1963 to start writing ‘Dune,’ he wasn’t thinking about how to leave Earth behind. He was thinking about how to save it.
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The colorful bubble letters have attracted praise and condemnation, with taggers seeing their work as a gift to the city, while others decry it as rampant vandalism.
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
In the Global South, a group of writers are rejecting the norms of science fiction and commenting on the future in a way that embraces Indigenous culture.
Nigeria’s writer and professor of drama, Kole Omotoso, died on 19 July 2023 aged 80.
The Hollywood actors’ strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts.
‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.
The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
A strain of sorrow and pessimism underlies all of Vonnegut’s fiction, as well as his graduation speeches. But he also insisted that young people cherish those fleeting moments of joy.
Polyglot texts — texts that use many languages — have become increasingly common as writers document struggles between regimes of European hegemony and decolonizing movements.
The ability of professors to freely teach and write about controversial topics without fear of retribution is nothing new.
Canada’s extension of copyright might be good for corporations that hold copyrights, but it’s bad news for creators and the public.
Is the writer’s appeal less about the power and complexity of his prose, and more about the view of him as a perennial underdog?
In a 1959 essay, Capote noted how Avedon seemed to capture ‘every hard-earned crow’s foot’ in his subjects – perhaps not realizing that he would one day be photographed by that same unvarnished gaze.
It takes a lot of steps – and help from other people – to make a physical book you can hold in your hands.
Writers seem to be especially vulnerable in polarized times, when the nuances of works are more likely to be overlooked.
Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
Many Black audiences are justifiably weary of works about their community told from white perspectives. But authorship isn’t always black and white.
If Dostoevsky insists that one cannot shy away from horror and tragedy, Tolstoy would contend that people must act upon what they see.
Funding for writing and publishing is not just low: it’s also declining. Ben Eltham looks at a grim federal budget for literature, in the context of ongoing neglect for written culture in Australia.
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Associate Professor and Archivist, Boise State University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Kansas
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Professor of Native American Literature, Film and Culture; Contemporary American Literature, University of Denver
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Associate Professor in China Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, University of Alberta
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Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver
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Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer (screenwriting), English & Creative Writing, Staffordshire University
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Maitre de conferences en histoire de l'Europe moderne, Université de York, Fellow 2018 - IEA de Paris, Institut d'études avancées de Paris (IEA) – RFIEA
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Senior Lecturer, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
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Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of Sydney
